The ranking Democratic member on the House Judiciary Committee is asking the committee’s chairman to turn over Rep. Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) staff’s classified memo to the Department of Justice, the FBI and the rest of the House Judiciary Committee.
In a letter to Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called the memo “profoundly misleading” and a “conspiracy theory.” He claimed the document is causing “too many of our colleagues” to construct “their own version of history.”
The memo in question was authored by Nunes’ staffers, and it reportedly contains classified information about the conduct of senior Department of Justice and FBI officials, that allegedly proves Republicans’ claims of the Justice Department’s bias against President Donald Trump.
Nadler said it was “profoundly unfair” that the memo hasn’t been given to the FBI or the Justice Department and said it was the Judiciary Committee’s responsibility to help those agencies “formulate a meaningful response” to the accusations in the memo.
On Tuesday, California Democrats Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff wrote a letter to Facebook and Twitter officials asking them to probe whether a hashtag promoting the release of the classified memo — “#ReleaseTheMemo” — was propagated by Russian bots.
Read Nadler’s letter below:
I certainly hope that the FBI and Justice Department are biased against the Trump maladministration. Given how tRump and his cronies violate and ignore the law over and over and over, having law enforcement conclude that they are the bad guys is like having Elliot Ness figure that Al Capone wasn’t someone he wanted to pal around with.
Pure deza. Absolutely straight out of Putin’s playbook.
Poor Devin. He just can’t get no respect.
And he’s been such a good boy.
(Yes, it’s a real billboard — complete with a typo — located in his district in California’s Central Valley.)
The Trump gang is mostly a bunch of clueless losers, it seems, oafishly clowning around and committing apparent crimes sort of through their own bumbling “that sounds awesome!” ineptitude. At most, their planning reaches as deep and thoughtful a level as “let’s write a press release that’s full of bullshit”. And they’re not very good at it.
Nunes really stands out as an actor who is actively and intently focused on relatively complex conspiracies to obstruct justice in L’Affaire Russe. When he goes down, I will take particular pleasure in it.
Maybe there is a good reason my UCLA education can’t figure out. But seriously, why is Devin Nunes allowed to investigate himself?